MM (Measured Move)

Trader or bot whose primary function / objective is to profit from the orderflow of a market. For some market, the privilege of being a market maker also comes with ...

Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve in United States holds regular meetings on its interest rate and other monetary policy decisions. The post-meeting announcements are widely monitored ...

Nowadays, many markets trade 24 hours a day. That was not the case before this Internet age and most businesses/trading firms still operate within normal day time hours based on ...

A theory describing the mechanism of price discovery under special conditions that leads to deterministic behaviour in price movements.

Daytraders from the old days mostly are floor traders. They did not have access to charts, or pretty much nothing else. Having pre-calculated price levels derived from previous trading day, ...

Open range for a timeframe is the range established during the initiation process in STOPD. It is a yardstick good for measuring the price behaviour dynamically. For example, for intraday ...

A terminal pattern for an uptrend. Detailed explanation can be found in this article

After Hours is the trading session outside of RTH. Most of the time the liquidity during AH is not very good, making erratic price movements more likely.

Various kind of moving averages. Just a generic term to refer to the use of MA.

A price spike thru an important price level and then immediately snap back and bounded by the price level again. For example, a stock can spike through its 20-week highest close ...